The drug is collected in summer and autumn when the fruit turns greenish-yellow, boiled in water until the exocarp becomes grayish-white in colour, halved longitudinally, and dried in the sunn.
It was a stagnant, warm, and misty night, full of all the heavy perfumes of new vegetation not yet dried by hot sun, and among these particularly the scent of the fern.
Pond scum is the slang name for microalgae - green plant organisms, such as spirulina, which grow in water - like ponds and look a bit slimy or scummy before being dried.
It is. I just can't keep up with all the clothes I have to wash, dry and iron. It doesn't matter how much washing I do, I keep running out of clean clothes.